This book provides an introduction to an important approach to the
study of voting and elections: the spatial theory of voting. In
contrast to the social-psychological approach to studying voting
behaviour, the spatial theory of voting is premised on the idea of
self-interested choice. Voters cast votes on the basis of their
evaluation of the candidates or policy alternatives competing for
their vote. Candidates fashion their appeals to the voters in an
effort to win votes. The spatial theory provides explicit
definitions for these behavioural assumptions to determines the
form that self-interested behaviour will take. The consequences of
this behaviour for the type of candidate or policy that voters will
select is the major focus of the theory. There is a twofold purpose
to this work. The first is to provide an elementary but rigourous
introduction to an important body of political science research.
The second is to design and test a spatial theory of elections that
provides insights into the nature of election contests. The book
will appeal to a wide audience, since the mathematics is kept to an
accessible level.
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